San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-10-29
SINCE LAST REPORT.
Notes Theatrical, OF the Amateur
and Professional Stage

lilo has seen has been good. On Monday
the great spectacular play "Around the
Word" was produced successfully at
the Grand opera house. The company
followed on Tuesday with matinee and
evening performance. The Grand then
remained closed until last night, when
the tablesux Tennyson's Dream of
Fair Women" and the accompanying
Brave Men," by Mrs. Spring, was put
on by our amateurs very successfully,
for the benefit Of the Young Mems
Christian association.
Next week will be much livelier in
theatrical circles. Tomorrow Miss
Florence Bindley opens a two days en-
gagement at the opera house, with q
matinee Monday afternoon. She Is par
excellence and will be worth the atten-
ton Of theatre goers. Tuesday and We'd
nesdsy, November ! and 2, Mr.. John
Warde will appear at the Grand In fine
comedy, and on Friday, Saturday and
Sunday, Miss Lizzie Evans will play her
annual engagement here, giving also q
Saturday matinee,
Next week is Keene week, the famous
trsgedisn, Thos. Keene, appearing for
two performances, Nov. 7 and 8. Keene
will be followed by Bsrrsy Il Fay, Nov.
8 and 10, and In turn they will leave
the boards for Mcintyre & Heath's
minstrels on the llth and 18th, with
a matinee on the 18th. The Evangeline
company will be here for one week after
the minstrels, then BristOls Horse
shoe" and then the Hidden Hand COM
pany. This will take US close to the end
OF November, and nearer to the Carle-
ton opera oompany's engagement.
The Fashion theatre has had very
successful week with their company.
Next week new company will be on
the boards.
The Polish Young Mems Union drs-
matte section are considering the mat
ter Of rehearsing for another dramatic
entertainment, at an early day.
In amateur circles we have been
greeted with a revival of the German
plays 30 popular last season. A very fine
trained combination Of amateurs at
Krisch hall Sunday, and a crowded house
greeted them. Tomorrow night the
same company will reappear at this
hall. They have been actively rehears-
ing for week past and something good
may be expected.
MATINEE MITES.
Chewing gum is admissible at alter
uOOu pcElOT uuduOts, anu 10 luc ldNOIllc
cud OF the Opera-house patrons.
LOrgnettes are more generally used at
mstinees than at night performances.
And some pretty ones and costly are to
be seen in fair hands.
The ushers are very Obliging, During
the intervals OF scenes, the curtains are
raised and the opera house flooded with
light. Here's the chance to study ones
programme and the latest styles.
A conversation, between ladies over
heard:
LIST Iady-"My, how this collar
scratohesr'
and l4dy-"How | hate bustles. One
can't sit comfortable"
lst-"Who is that with that black hat
trimmed in white? Looks like she's In
half-mourning ?"
2nd-"Thst Mrs. B. can't be in second
mourning. Her husbands dead four
yearsP'
lst-"What do you think OF the latest
engagement. He is throwing himself
away on her. | think. They say he
never courted a woman before, but she
told me he just asked her as natural as if
he had been used to it."
2nd-"Umph, she had 1t down fine
then, to know 80 much. | say he de-
serves better fate"
3rd-"Sister, what does that curtain
painting represent? Where Is the scene
laid? | know, but can't tell. My
escort the other night asked me and
was really ashamed. not to know?"
2Hd LADY, don't know. 1t is oriental,
| know, but "cssting stones at the cap
tive" I'm sure, isn't it, for where are
the stones?"
Gents voice, behind them, to his wife
-"Mollie, how do you like the cur
tainP Isn't the beauty before the sultan
far better than the booty the ruffisn Is
presentingP "YOu know 1 adore beauty
over booty, else I'd not have married
you"
PEOPLE KNOWN TO US.
Carleton is singing "Nanon" In Pitts
burg.
British Blondes are drawing heavily
in Chicago.
New Orleans managers have lost dur
ing the recent bad weather.
oliver Byron is playing the "Inside
Track" in Kentucky.
Signor Campanini has arrived in this
country.
Bishop, the mind reader, will tour
Mexico.
Barry & Fay's company had a fire
panic in Chattanooga.
Luke Schoolcraft was presented with
a diamond PIN in Houston.
Lolita is playing Pawn Ticket 2lO''
In Cleveland, Ohio. Effie EiIsler is
there in Egypt"
Lizzie Evans, in "Our Angel" at Hot
Springs, Ark, had Speaker Carlisle and
party in one OF the boxes.
Columbus has a new Opera house,
which the Louise Balfe company were
engaged to open last Friday.
The Martin Golden dramatic com
pany is not now in Texas, but Bella
Golden is yet starring with the COM
pany.
J. G.. Stuttz, of the Stuttz Dramatic
company, who were in San Antonio
some few years ago, were stranded in
Brownsville after they left here, and
StuttZ himself was broke so fiat that he
took q job of grinding corn for meal, for
his board, and Ii was all hand work too.
The Fay Templeton company helped
them out by giving them big benefit.
Y. M. c. A. Tableaux.
Last night these long looked for tab
lesux were given at the Grand opera
house to a passAbly good house, and
were promptly and artistically shown.
MIR. S. M. johnson offiGiated as reader
for the first part Fair Women" and
oil kal In